Nursing Home Office Manager Cops Plea To Ripping Off Residents' Social Security Income Intended To Pay For Housing, Care

In Jasper County, Iowa, the Newton Daily News reports:

• A woman who worked at a Newton care facility has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $55,000 in federal funds. Kelly Jo Seals, 35, pleaded guilty in federal court to theft of government property on Jan. 25. Seals stole $55,873.82 while working as office manager from February 2005 to May 2007 at Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Newton.

• According to her plea agreement filed in the United States District Court for Southern District of Iowa, Seals misappropriated funds belonging to Eloise Rhoades, Leona Mills and Opal Mills by converting their Social Security Retirement check funds to her own use. The funds were intended for payment to Heritage Manor for care and housing of Rhoades and the Mills women.

For more, see Woman pleads guilty to stealing funds from Newton nursing home.